Orchard Heights and Sidney Glen elementary schools also among state’s ‘reward schools’
South Kitsap has made dramatic changes on both sides of the ball
District reduced savings fund to 2.5 percent in 2011 to help cover deficit
Winn wants to promote hands-on projects throughout South Kitsap School District
Organizing for America set up booth for people to register
Manchester man won track race at championships in Colorado
Camp to Belong Washington has run for four years at Miracle Ranch
Decades long effort to culminate with 100-year anniversary of SK football in 2020
Vendors will provide free school supplies and more to SKSD students during day-long event
South Kitsap School District Board of Directors president Kathryn Simpson confirmed that interim superintendent Beverly Cheney will start either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Joe Serka, 66, said he could have taken a new job out of state, but was really ready to retire. And while running the vineyard hardly constitutes a break — he estimates he spends 40 to 70 hours a week pruning his three acres of vines and making wine — Serka could not imagine doing anything else.
South Kitsap graduate has not won in Seattle since 2009
Jeff Stokes, son of Port of Bremerton Commissioner Larry Stokes, long has planned to construct a two-story, 3,593-square-foot building with six gas pumps and double-walled fiberglass underground tanks.
South Kitsap School District officials will change their communication procedures after a 5-year-old girl wandered off and could not immediately be found after Monday’s Summer Lunch Program at East Port Orchard Elementary School.
What used to be a fierce rivalry has evolved into a partnership of sorts between the 1972 South Kitsap graduate Dave Villwock and Nate Brown, who will pilot U-17 Miss Red Dot during this weekend’s Albert Lee Cup at Seafair.
But Pickard, who serves as a federal relations liaison for the Association of Washington Principals, said the intention of his meeting was not to eliminate NCLB. He said the law has several good features, such as “raising standards for student achievement.”
She previously guided the school district from 2001-08
It initially was a 10-week program, but Hardison said it was scaled back in 2010 when the South Kitsap School District developed its own. Hardison said Helpline then went to a two-week lunch session in August to close a gap between the district’s program and the beginning of school.
And earlier this year, South Kitsap alternative programs principal Pat Oster received permission from superintendent Dave LaRose to fill it.
The district’s last four-year levy passed in 2009 with 57.6 percent of the vote. SKSD officials estimated in 2008 that taxpayers’ contributions would increase from $1.90 to $2.27 per $1,000 assessed valuation through the end of the last school year before it increased by one cent. According to Kitsap County Auditor’s records, the rate actually increased from about $2.01 to approximately $2.50 in 2010 and to $2.65 per $1,000 assessed valuation in 2011.
